Mar 16, 2014 | Blog, Karen's blog, Portfolio
Kiboko grooming a crocodile. I have seen this behaviour on a regular basis and believe the hippos groom the crocodiles for a couple of reasons. The area they choose to groom is normally the tail or along the ridge on the top of the croc’s body. In those areas...
Aug 19, 2009 | Karen's blog
I’ve been obsessed with hippos since I was a child. For my 21st birthday I asked to have an adopted hippo. My mum researched this on the internet and found various zoo options, which just put your name on a plaque and give you free entry to the zoo, but then came...
Jul 19, 2002 | Karen's blog
“Hi my lovelies, hello my beauties, Hi my lovelies, hello my beauties” is what Karen Paollillo repeats over and over again as we approach 18 representatives of Africa’s most dangerous animal species. From behind the Baobab tree we are slowly moving...
Aug 19, 2001 | Karen's blog
The photos shown here are of the hippos in their pool at the Chichindwi weir, where we initially used the sand pump back in May. The photos were taken in early July, one month after we had removed 2500 cubic meters of sand. As you can see there is a large wall of...
Jul 19, 1997 | Karen's blog
What have a young English schoolgirl and a lady living in the middle of the African bush got in common? The love of hippos- those great big lumbering animals that spend most of their lives under water. Karen Paolillo, the lady living in the bush, is carrying out...
Jul 19, 1995 | Karen's blog
Ron Crittall [UK Financial Times] meets a woman to whom hippos, threatened and abandoned during the drought of 1991/92 owe their lives. —oOo— It was dusk, Karen Paolillo sat on the banks of the now flowing Turgwe River, in south-east...